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Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine

Post author By Orac
Post date January 5, 2015
633 Comments on Science and the AAAS sell their souls to promote pseudoscience in medicine

NOTE: There is a follow up to this post. The holidays are over. Time to start dishing out fresh Insolence, Respectful and, as appropriate, not-so-Respectful for 2015. I do, however, feel obligated to deal with one painfully inappropriate action by a major science journal left over from 2014. It happened in an issue that came […]

Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Naturopathy Politics Pseudoscience Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Congress polishes the turd that was NCCAM

Post author By Orac
Post date December 18, 2014
78 Comments on Congress polishes the turd that was NCCAM

With the way our dysfunctional federal government works, it’s not uncommon for the end of a fiscal year to come and go without there being a budget for the next fiscal year in place. This phenomenon is particularly common during election years, and this year was no different. September 30 came and went, followed by […]

Tags federal budget, Joseph Chikelue Obi, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NCCAM, NCCIH, omnibus spending bill, quackademic medicine, quackery, Tom Harkin

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